About Joe Rykowski

Senior DevOps Engineer. Developer. Process automation expert. Doing more, whining less since launching career in 1993.

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Joe Rykowski Senior DevOps Engineer and software developer

Over the years have had opportunities to work with many teams on variety of tasks, some of my more recent experience is highlighted below...

Infrastructure Developed PowerShell modules for system interfaces for use with Puppet.
  • Custom VMWare Module
  • Secret Server interface
  • Team Services interface
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    Packaging
  • Nuget
  • Chocolatey
    • Strong with both... Implementing. Creating packages. Scripting custom ChocolateyInstall.ps1 scripts.
    OS
  • Windows Server
      • 2012 R2
      2016
  • Linux
      • CentOS
      Debian
      Raspian (for Raspberry Pi)
    R&D Evaluations Conducted research and pilot projects for internal team tooling
  • Monitoring
  • Machine Data aggregation, indexing, and search
  • Team Services
  • CI/CD release pipelines
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    Automated Provisioning and Monitoring Using same pipeline for application deployment, architected Provisioning pipeline to automate infrastructure-as-code process. Splunk analytics with conditional alerting (for monitoring).
    Development Experience Developed tools and other projects using:
  • PowerShell
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • C#
  • T-SQL
    • Unit Testing:
  • Pester
  • VS Test
    • Implemented and used static code analysis tools:
  • HP Fortify (security scanning)
  • SonarQube (health checks)
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    AWS & Azure Experience Explored services to leverage cloud instead of relying strictly on-prem data center. Enabled pipeline tasks for AWS deployments, provided guidance on use to development teams. Implemented Azure Virtual machines, setup Azure AD with Visual Studio Team Services.
    Innovation Projects Lead on multiple innovation projects:
  • Agile team build/release status lamps
  • Chocolatey/Nuget package development for agent deploys
  • Automated VM creation as part of Provisioning pipeline
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    I am currently engaged as DevOps / Hosting Engineer with Huron Consulting Group in Hillsboro, Oregon.

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    Hillsboro, Oregon USA.

    503-877-5637
    jrykowski@gmail.com